Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump weathered a storm of controversy over the weekend after the release of a 2005 audiotape in which he made some lewd, locker room banter-type comments. While a number of prominent Republicans abandoned Trump, actor Scott Baio was not among them.

Baio instead chided the left for its faux outrage, its love of manufactured controversy and its double standard for Democrats and Republicans.

The former “Happy Days” star told Judge Jeanine Pirro on Fox News that he stands by Trump and that those who were harshly criticizing the GOP candidate needed to “grow up.”

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“First of all, I think 11 years ago Trump was a Democrat, so doesn’t he deserve a pass?” Baio said. “I like Trump because Trump is not a politician. He talks like a guy.”

Baio made two superb points here: first, that there is a separate set of standards for Democrats and Republicans, and second that Trump truly is not a politician, which is exactly what many of his supporters like about him.

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“And ladies out there, this is what guys talk about when you’re not around,” Baio added. “So If you are offended by it, grow up. And by the way, this is what you guys [women] talk about over white wine when you have your brunches. This is they way the world works. Take it easy.”

Exactly. The left uses identity politics to gain votes, and that is exactly what they have tried to do with the release of this tape. To act as if women are poor, delicate flowers who never talk about this kind of thing and can’t handle hearing it is absolutely laughable and incorrect, as there are plenty of women that talk the same way.

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“He’s saying, ‘I’m a guy, this is how we talk,'” Baio said. “‘Listen, you can not like the way I talk when I’m with my buddies, but you better like the way I’m going to fix stuff. Because my opponent is going to wreck the country: open borders, says one thing to banks in speeches and says other things to the country. I mean lies about everything.'”

Although Trump’s comments were morally repugnant — the “boys will be boys” argument is weak and doesn’t make it OK — the faux moral outrage of the morally bankrupt left is ridiculous, hypocritical and shameful.

As Baio pointed out, Trump has said things that people don’t like, but his plans for this country have the potential to turn things around. Clinton, however, is going to do things that will ruin this country — not to mention the fact that she has said and done things far worse with regard to women and children than what we heard from Trump’s tape. The choice here seems pretty simple.